We present a series of tributes to our colleague Bill Mooney, a truly inspirational figure in our ranks, from friends and fellow members of the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters.
Bill is nearing the end of his valiant fight with cancer, and his remaining time with us is short. The way he has conducted himself throughout his life, including the months that passed after he was diagnosed, led to the creation during Tom Pedulla's presidency in 2015 of the Bill Mooney Award for displaying courage in the face of tremendous adversity. President Alicia Wincze Hughes approved a request for these tributes, and as you are about to see, the response has been great.
Following the tributes, there is more about Bill's life, his achievements and his contributions to our calling.
We have admired your gallantry to "not go gentle into that good night." If, however, you perceive a journey's completion, settle in for the ultimate victory of peacefulness. God bless you.
I am forever grateful to Bill for unknowingly steering me to a career in racetrack publicity and turf writing. First he convinced me to do an article for The Thoroughbred Record and made sure it got published. Then he recommended me for a job in the Oaklawn Park press box that inadvertently led to a position at Canterbury Downs during the inaugural season. Like so many others, Bill was unable to get me completely out of the barns, but thanks to him I am able to blend racehorses and race writing into a fun-filled career and lifestyle. So many thanks to Bill!
I met Bill Mooney in June 2002 when I started at Thoroughbred Times. Of course, his credentials were impressive: Author, Eclipse Award winner, New York Times reporter, etc. What stuck out most, though, is two months later when I saw his name showing up on Mountaineer press releases ahead of the West Virginia Derby. As a young reporter who "grew up" at Thistledown, I worried that I'd lose my roots among the roses and dogwoods of Kentucky. Seeing a colleague like Bill embrace Mountaineer gave me confidence that the Sport of Kings doesn't always have to be covered in its palaces.
Bill, your courage has been a tremendous inspiration to all of us. Be strong and know your legacy will always be in the hearts and minds of your friends and colleagues in the NWTAB.
When I was a young turf writer just starting out, Bill took the time to befriend me and mentor me. We shared a passion for the obscure side of racing. Like me, he loved to explore the sites of old, abandoned racetracks. A trip to Berkshire Downs, anyone? He's a person with a big passion for the game and an even bigger heart.
Hey Bill, your courage and dignity have made a lasting impression on us all. You are truly an inspiration! Godspeed my friend.
Bill has been a dear friend to me and my son for more than two decades. Bill and I wrote for the same magazines, The Backstretch and Thoroughbred Times, and I'm proud to say that Bill won his second Eclipse Award for a story he did in my short-lived magazine, Thoroughbred Style. Bill and I have both had one single piece of fiction published. The two stories not only appeared in the same magazine, but on adjoining pages. We always get a kick out of that. Bill has a wonderful perspective on being real about what we do -- he once told me we write stories about horses running in circles. Yet I've always admired Bill's hard work to do his beautifully written stories. He does his homework and he gets it right. What more can a writer do? Bill and I spoke recently on a subject dear to both of us - the New York Giants. He's as obsessed as my son and I. How could I not love him? As Bill continues his brave battle, he has taught all of us a valuable lesson of what courage and determination really mean. He is one tough man.
Your courage is an inspiration. Wishing you comfort, satisfaction and peace of mind as your journey continues ever more.
I was not in the game when you were near the top of it. But your work is among that work I'll read and reread to learn to get right. I was privileged to have an e-mail exchange just last week with you, Bill. Your attitude was precisely what I would have expected: gracious, uplifting and grateful. We have too few people like you in the sport - no, in the world! Bill, you may be nearing your personal finish line, but we all have been privileged to witness your run. I hope I can approach the final furlong of my own race with similar grace and courage. Peace.
While I have many wonderful memories from my years knowing and admiring Bill Mooney, it's an early one that really says a great deal about who Bill is, why he has been important to racing journalism and further solidified the respect of his peers in the NTWAB. Twenty years ago, writer Stephanie Diaz was announced as the winner of both Eclipse Awards for writing available in 1995: magazine and newspapers. Questions arose about the articles. Several people quoted in the stories said that they had not been interviewed by Diaz or that they had never said some of the things that appeared as quoted material in Diaz's pieces. There were allegations of plagiarism. The NTWAB became involved and spent thousands of dollars on lawyers' fees -- I recall it being north of $40,000 -- to investigate and represent us in this matter. Many NTWAB members felt strongly about the developing controversy and spoke out about what looked to be violations of basic rules of journalism, but no one was more passionate than Bill. He was incensed, particularly that Diaz blamed editors for some of the issues. The NTWAB was partially successful. The magazine award was vacated by an arbitrator, though we asked that both be taken away, and Bill deserves some of the credit for personally never taking a step back and for keeping the organization involved.
I will forever be in debt to Bill. He supported and encouraged me when I was a younger writer covering racing and through some difficult years I had during my time at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. He set a great example of how important first-hand research can be when he discovered that the New York Racing Association's media guide was wrong crediting Sylvester Veitch with holding the record for most wins by a trainer at Saratoga. Bill is a fine writer and historian, a very good person, friend and mentor. I am so happy that our paths crossed many years ago in the press box at Saratoga Race Course. Lucky me.
Years ago, when I wrote for Daily Racing Form, I spent a lot of time at the Keeneland Library -- researching stories, reading about pedigrees, etc. Never was I there that Bill was not also in the building. I always admired his strong desire and will to spend hours digging for nuggets that might make a story just a little bit better. His readers were the beneficiaries of his hard work. I imagine that like myself, Bill is not a fan of Twitter. Why say something in 140 characters when you can say it in 2,000 words? Because in depth is not just how Bill wrote, in depth describes Bill's character.
Not only has Bill excelled as a writer and reporter during his distinguished career as a turf writer, in my mind he is greatest racing historian of our time.
Here on the threshold of man's greatest adventure, I say bravo for handling it all with such class and dignity. You have been an inspiration for all to face our toughest challenges boldly. Thank you for all the beautiful word-pictures you created for our education and our entertainment. For myself, I have long appreciated your eye for detail, your ear for story, and your steady proving that language can resonate like music. Go in peace, my friend.
As a co-worker, competitor, and friend of Bill Mooney for the last three decades I can attest that (apologies to Carly Simon) "nobody does it half as good as you." During that time, I was always in awe of the thoroughness and quality of Bill's work. It was great to work with Bill but very frustrating to compete against him. At times, when I was in a position to edit any of Bill Mooney copy, I knew I could take a short cut and not do the requisite fact-checking, both due to to Bill's relentless pursuit of facts and his accuracy. At some point, we grew apart professionally and personally, but in recent years rekindled our relationship. During our Ramsey lunches, Bill continued to impart his insightful observations of our industry, especially some the absurdities, along with many enjoyable stories and a healthy dose of humor . His adventure over the last two years should be a motivating factor for anyone who finds themselves in a seemingly impossible position, no matter the circumstances. Thanks Bill.
If aspiring young turf writers asked for an example to follow, I would point to Bill Mooney, to his determination to unearth information, make certain of its accuracy and write it well. I also would tell them Bill is a fine writer but a greater man, prized for integrity, character and class. He is among the best of this, or any, era.
As a long time journalist and wordsmith, you understand how hackneyed the term "one of the good guys" can be. In your case, the only change I would make is to print the word GOOD thusly. Although our time was brief, I always looked forward to and appreciated our annual visits in the Saratoga press box, in the days when turf writers and good writing was appreciated. Godspeed my friend.
It's a rare individual who can look beyond his own adversity and suffering to cater to others. Bill Mooney has been an encourager and comforter to those around him, as well as his turf media brethren, during his health battle. His strength of character is an inspiration, and one that leads me to commend the NTWAB for instituting in 2015 the Bill Mooney Award for displaying courage in the face of tremendous adversity. The courage and class Bill Mooney has displayed throughout his ordeal is uncommon in nature. It is fitting that this award be given out when a person's generous spirit under extreme adversity is so evident that it calls to mind our unforgettable friend Bill Mooney.
Bill Mooney embodies the best of the what a turf writer and turf publicist are; he is the consummate professional. Even better, he is an extraordinary human being. He is a true gentleman, and a man of integrity, honesty and decency. I am proud to call Bill my colleague, and prouder still and delighted to know he is my friend.
One manifestation of Bill's courage is an ever-present sense of humor.
"When I finally check out," Mooney recently wrote, "I'd like to have racetracks around the country to have a moment of noise for me. Not silence. Noise."
Almost last, but certainly not least, we note that Bill was presented the 2012 Walter Haight Award at the NTWAB Annual Awards Dinner. A link to the excellent dinner program story about Bill's colorful career and achievements is here.
In conclusion Bill, three cheers to you, and thank you for all you've done for the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters and for displaying courage in the face of tremendous adversity.


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Q: Editing assembly on Mac OS X I'm currently disassembling a Mach-O executable(the executable runs on Mac OS X, to be specific) in IDA Pro on windows. I have one instruction which I want to change, but it doesn't seem that IDA Pro allows you to do this. So, I tried using otool on OS X to dump the assembly(which it does fine). However, after editing the assembly in otool, I tried to reassemble it using as <file name of modified otool -tV output>. This greets me with a bunch of errors like Junk character 43 (+). What's the easiest way to change just a single instruction in a Mach-O binary on Mac OS X?

A: I've used both otool and otx to disassemble various binaries, and I've found the easiest way to edit them is to figure out what the assembly of the new code I want is (using nasm or similar), then just use a hex editor (I prefer Hex Fiend) on the binary file.

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This 5 suite chalet sleeps 10 adults and two children and comes with a full professional staff, including a Michelin-trained chef, concierge, chambermaids and beauty therapist.
The Chalet Citrine has a spacious open plan living space, complete with grand piano, bar and a lounge, making it a great place for socializing. The main living area opens out onto various terraces and provides stunning views of the La Face piste. Your dinner is served in the adjacent dining room, which features both contemporary and characteristic cowhide chairs.
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The appointment started with the client expressing his frustration with the previous vet he saw at our partner hospital who didn't seem to make his dog any better. As this gentlemen was completing his story telling me all about the horrible doctor at that other location, his wife interrupted to let him know that the doctor he saw earlier…was actually me. Oops.
The client's frustration revolved around another miscommunication. His complaint was that his dog had been "hunched" since the last visit. I had apparently caused the problem and it never went away after the injection that I gave at the last visit. The guy claimed that I told him the injection I gave would cause this "hunched" posture. That didn't sound like something I would have said. Something didn't add up.
I realized that "hunched" sounded like part of my normal subcutaneous fluids spiel. In an attempt to break the tension and reference something the owners may recognize, I often tell owners that the fluid bubble under the skin would cause the dog to temporarily have a "hunchback" appearance. Unfortunately, this time the owner didn't understand my explanation. Miscommunication turned my usually well-received analogy into a cause for the owner to misinterpret his dog's pain as a normal side effect from the treatment.
In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, we see the main characters learning how to perform spells. One memorable early lesson involving the Levitation Charm introduces us to how important appropriate communication is in the wizarding world. By changing the emphasized syllable from LeviosA to LeviOsa, Hermione gave flight to her feather.
An important aspect of this lesson, is that Ron, who was saying LeviosA, did not realize what he was doing was incorrect. When miscommunication happens, it's unintentional. Ron didn't mean to pronounce the spell wrong, just like I didn't mean to give my client inappropriate advice.
So, how can we prevent miscommunication in veterinary medicine? And what do we do when miscommunication happens?
When miscommunication happens, acknowledge it and then try to explain what you meant. For my client who I had upset at his previous visit, I apologized for the misunderstanding. I explained where I think the breakdown of communication occurred. Then, I moved on to discussing what we could do next.
Notice that I didn't assign blame to him or me. When miscommunication happens, the blame really does fall on both parties. Pointing fingers doesn't help, and how the correction is presented can be upsetting if you are smug about it. Hermione was rarely wrong (and we must forgive her because she was just a young first-year student during this incident) but she made a mistake by correcting Ron in a way that belittled him. Please learn from this rare Hermione error and avoid the temptation to promote yourself as the better person because you were the smarter individual. Instead, I find that focusing energy on how to move forward is much more helpful to everyone involved.
So, please watch out for the pitfalls of miscommunication in your practice. Use the pronunciation of the levitation charm to remind you of the magic of effectively recognizing and managing miscommunication.


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Every September I head out West for some alpine fun in the mountain range where I grew up. September is the perfect time to try some of the mega classics like the West Ridge of Forbidden (fifty classic) or possibly Mt. Shuksan (pictured left) via several classic lines. If ice and snow is more your thing then consider the North Ridge of Mt Baker.
Day One – climb the Riffelhorn above Zermatt. A fun day with a train approach to a 5-7 pitch rock climb. You will climb in your mountain boots to prepare for the Matterhorn.
Day Two – ride the lifts up to the Klein Matterhorn and traverse in to Italy and climb Pollux via easy rock and a great snow arete to the summit. Night in the Val D Ayas hut.
Day Three – Climb Castor above the Val D Ayas hut and one more night at the hut.
Day Four – Ascend back up the glacier and traverse the half Breithorn. Amazing climb and perfect training for the Matterhorn. Night back in Zermatt.
Day Five – Ascent to Hornli Hut at the base of the Matterhorn.
Day Six – Matterhorn! Wake up call at 3:30 and 3:50 depart for the base of the ridge. The climb typically takes 4-5.5 hours to the top and another 5-5.5 hours down. Descend to Zermatt and enjoy a celebratory dinner and drinks.
I am able to guest guide in RMNP through the Colorado Mountain School where there are too many classics to list. A few of my favorite are the Petit Grepon, Spiral Route on Notchtop or Hallets Peak.


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// Author:
//   Sunil Kumar (Sunilk@novell.com)
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// (C) 2003 Novell, Inc (http://www.novell.com)
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using System;
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Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games 2020 is destined to become Figure 19.2 in a future textbook about the cultural impact of Covid-19; or at least it would, if textbooks weren't soon to go extinct to be replaced by educational TikToks. With the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games being delayed by a year, the game is now a relic from pre-Covid times, but unfortunately that's all it will likely be remembered as.
While it is, for the most part, a fairly typical Mario & Sonic Olympics game – that is to say, some great events, a lot that lack polish, and a couple which seem impossible to figure out – the rugby game is in a league of its own. Mario & Sonic is usually at its best when it's a party game, when the events are raw and simple like the 100m. The rugby sevens however, being an arcadey riff on the sport and played with buttons over motion control, flies in the face of all that.
It isn't what people pick up Mario & Sonic At The Olympics for, and that means it's largely gone unnoticed. That's a real shame, because it's easily the best part of the game and fills a massive gap in the sport sim world: there has never been a good rugby game until now.
There's something free flowing to the rugby event, something difficult to get right at the best of times, but especially given that it's not even the focus here.
Rugby actually made its debut in 2016, though it was a little rough around the edges. Here, it's much cleaner, while keeping the frantic pace real rugby has but virtual rugby often sacrifices. Passes will always go level or backwards, so you can't trip yourself up on the confusing rules; rugby being one of the few ball sports where a pass forward is not allowed. Scrums are included but simplified to a question of whoever has more players nearest the scrum will win, and to keep a lightning fast flow, players can leap over tackles and build up a charge meter which offers either a unstoppable burst of pace or an inescapable power tackle.
Stats even feature too, though in the most accessible of ways. Wario and Robotnik make the best tacklers, while Daisy, Shadow and Sonic are speedsters. Blaze builds her charge faster, Amy and Mario are all rounders and Peach has the best distribution. It's easy to build a dream team without knowing what type of skill set works best in which position. Rugby sometimes even prides itself on being obtusely difficult to understand, but Mario & Sonic break it down for beginners.
The football (soccer, I suppose) event has been part of the series since 2012, and brings the same chaotic energy, stripping down to five a side instead of the usual XI to make the game more cartoonish and less rigid, while also giving the characters room to breathe. There isn't too much reason to shout about the football mini game though; it's nothing we haven't seen before in the likes of FIFA Street, Sega Soccer Slam and, of course, Super Mario Strikers. Rugby though has never had anything close to this before, and once you dig into other rugby sims, you start to see why.
Rugby is part of the Holy Trinity of British sport, but is notoriously difficult to right in video game format. Football, with a fast flowing style, adapts to the virtual world easily, while cricket is slow and methodical enough that it invites a more measured gameplay. Rugby, however, has the fast and furious pace of football mixed with the hyper specific rules of cricket. There's a certain appeal to that sort of sport, no question, but it doesn't easily translate to video games. Just ask… literally any rugby game ever.
Rugby is a sport with a deep respect for the rules. In football, if you can bend the rules a little bit to your advantage, you'll be lauded as a wildcard. In rugby, you're a pariah. The rules are less invasive in football, but they're also less sacred. If a rule gets in the way of FIFA, the game finds a way to cheat around it. Obstruction is rarely called, the keeper auto clears to avoid the six second rule, etc. Rugby games don't have this laissez faire attitude to the rule book, and that's to their detriment.
If you don't know what you're doing, a rugby sim isn't going to waste time teaching you.
Rugby is a more stop-start game than football, and for fans of the sport, this off and on explosive nature is very much a part of its charm. Football can get bogged down too – just go watch Sunderland and you'll see – but that's a reflection on the quality of the players and the manager's approach to the game, not part of the game's very design itself. This means that football sims, by putting a lot of stock in pacey players, skill moves and offensive tactics, can recreate great football matches without needing to resort to arcade style, Princess Daisy leapfrogging Bowser as she charges down the byline.
Rugby might not need to either, but right now, rugby games seem far too scared to find out.
Rugby games simply don't have the appeal of football games, and they likely never will. Football is a truly global sport, while rugby only has a major following in a handful of countries. This means that FIFA and PES have a mass appeal outside of fanatics and season ticket holders, but rugby games are likely only going to sell to hardcore rugby fans. This is why they get overloaded with minutae, why every pass, kick and tackle is a tactical ordeal. Because the games were designed to appeal to those who live and breathe rugby, the developers have convinced themselves that each action needs to be precise and meticulously planned.
They're wrong.
I love football. It's one of the things I miss the most about our pre-pandemic lives. It goes 'seeing my family', then 'football'. Newcastle are still in the FA Cup, man! Tactics Steve is gonna windmill us to Wembley!
While I love football probably more than the average FIFA player, what I love most about FIFA is how it captures the simplicity of the sport. Give ball to Saint-Maxmimin. Run.
Rugby games completely miss this spirit of simplicity in a weird gatekeeping exercise which serves only to put off people who've already bought the games. Yes, rugby is a complex sport, but when you're playing a match as the All Blacks, you'd think they'd be able to string three passes together without much fuss. For most rugby sims though, because they insist on putting you in control of everything, a simple pass becomes an exercise in long division. Just. Pass. The. Ball.
Perhaps because it wasn't made for rugby purists, but instead for everyone to be able to pick up the egg and run with it, Mario & Sonic avoids these pitfalls. They've made the first truly enjoyable rugby game since, well, since themselves in 2016. After that though, you'd struggle to find another one which was even remotely fun. Mario & Sonic succeed where others failed for one simple reason: it didn't take rugby too seriously.
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Q: System Design of Google Trends? I am trying to figure out system design behind Google Trends (or any other such large scale trend feature like Twitter).
Challenges:

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*Need to process large amount of data to calculate trend.

*Filtering support - by time, region, category etc.

*Need a way to store for archiving/offline processing. Filtering support might require multi dimension storage.
This is what my assumption is (I have zero practial experience of MapReduce/NoSQL technologies)
Each search item from user will maintain set of attributes that will be stored and eventually processed.
As well as maintaining list of searches by time stamp, region of search, category etc.
Example:
Searching for Kurt Cobain term:
Kurt-> (Time stamp, Region of search origin, category ,etc.)

Cobain-> (Time stamp, Region of search origin, category ,etc.)

Question:

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*How do they efficiently calculate frequency of search term ?

*In other words, given a large data set, how do they find top 10 frequent items in distributed scale-able manner ?

A: Well... finding out the top K terms is not really a big problem. One of the key ideas in this fields have been the idea of "stream processing", i.e., to perform the operation in a single pass of the data and sacrificing some accuracy to get a probabilistic answer. Thus, assume you get a stream of data like the following:
A B K A C A B B C D F G A B F H I B A C F I U X A C
What you want is the top K items. Naively, one would maintain a counter for each item, and at the end sort by the count of each item. This takes O(U) space and O(max(U*log(U), N)) time, where U is the number of unique items and N is the number of items in the list.
In case U is small, this is not really a big problem. But once you are in the domain of search logs with billions or trillions of unique searches, the space consumption starts to become a problem.
So, people came up with the idea of "count-sketches" (you can read up more here: count min sketch page on wikipedia). Here you maintain a hash table A of length n and create two hashes for each item:
h1(x) = 0 ... n-1 with uniform probability
h2(x) = 0/1 each with probability 0.5
You then do A[h1[x]] += h2[x]. The key observation is that since each value randomly hashes to +/-1, E[ A[h1[x]] * h2[x] ] = count(x), where E is the expected value of the expression, and count is the number of times x appeared in the stream.
Of course, the problem with this approach is that each estimate still has a large variance, but that can be dealt with by maintaining a large set of hash counters and taking the average or the minimum count from each set.
With this sketch data structure, you are able to get an approximate frequency of each item. Now, you simply maintain a list of 10 items with the largest frequency estimates till now, and at the end you will have your list.

A: How exactly a particular private company does it is likely not publicly available, and how to evaluate the effectiveness of such a system is at the discretion of the designer (be it you or Google or whoever)
But many of the tools and research is out there to get you started.  Check out some of the Big Data tools, including many of the top-level Apache projects, like Storm, which allows for the processing of streaming data in real-time
Also check out some of the Big Data and Web Science conferences like KDD or WSDM, as well as papers put out by Google Research
How to design such a system is challenging with no correct answer, but the tools and research are available to get you started


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This article outlines the basics of playing bingo zingo, from the rules to game variations. While it may seem like a simple task, there are actually many different variations to the game. These variations can be very beneficial in teaching children how to match words and pictures. You might also enjoy other variations of this game, including the fun and tactile Zinger that adds a whole new level of play to the game. To learn more about these variations, keep reading.
The Zingo game is one of the shortest games in Time2Play. Players have fifteen minutes to play. In addition to the game, you can participate in the loading process, ensuring that everyone can help out in loading the tiles. And unlike other games, you don't have to clean up the game when you're finished playing. You can simply dump all of your tiles back into the box for the next game. If you're looking for a short game, you should try playing Zingo.
One of the best parts of the Zingo game is that it's fast-paced, and involves early readers and pre-readers. Children play by scrambling to match a picture or word on a challenge card to win a game. Although the game is fast-paced, it also teaches children a lot of skills. For example, children who are learning to read can play the game while doing other activities. When playing, kids can play in teams, competing against each other or taking their time to fill the card.
When the game is over, the dealer slides unclaimed tiles back into the Zinger. After the player who calls first is able to cover all nine spaces, he or she calls a letter and takes the tile. The player who calls first wins the game and begins as the Dealer in the next game. If two players have the same tile, the first one to call the tile will win. If the players call each other, they must wait for the other to call their tile.
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Under the patronage of the President of Council of Ministers H.E. Mr. Saad Hariri and with the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Lebanon, Berytech successfully organized Lebanon's first agri-food innovation conference and exhibition attended by over 1200 students, academics and researchers, engineers, innovators, investors, agri-food sector players, government officials, the media and ecosystem partners.
Berytech, with the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Lebanon, has been leading on sourcing agri-food innovations from Lebanon for the past two years through its Agrytech Program. "We organized this first conference and exhibition to showcase these innovations and create a networking environment for the startups, the SMEs and the larger companies, as well as our entrepreneurs, academia and public institutions," continued Chammas.
The conference and exhibition was set at the Beirut International Exhibition & Leisure Center (BIEL) on a 1500 m2 area with two main focuses: the exhibition space and several on-going activities. 25 renowned agri-food companies with products and services across the entire value-chain, and 13 fresh startups from the Agrytech Accelerator showcased their innovations in agri-food technology. The Berytech Fab Lab space also allowed a first-hand experience with its machines, showcasing the different hardware prototyping opportunities for startups.
The highlight of the conference was the official launching of QOOT, the first Agri-food innovation cluster in Lebanon working on increasing the competitiveness of the agri-food sector and placing Lebanon back on the international innovation map. The cluster currently gathers 26 innovative companies and startups with the goal of strengthening the position of the Lebanese Agri-Food sector, attracting talents, developing new products and services and promoting the Lebanese cuisine and agro products among the most innovative, healthy in the world, while also attracting foreign investments.
On stage, 9 startups from the Agrytech Accelerator demonstrated months of work in developing their business, all incorporating innovation as a main factor in addressing the challenges of the agri-food sector locally and globally.
A panel discussion moderated by Berytech's Project Director Krystel Khalil, hosted Gustavo Perez – Program Manager of 5toi Project, Yasmina Raphael – Head of Business Environment and Innovation at Lebanon's Prime Minister's Office, Evert Jaap – Managing Director at YES!Delft Netherlands, and Rani Azzi – Vineyard Manager and Assistant Technical Director at Chateau Kefraya. The panelists discussed policies focused on food security and sustainable development, and innovating following a nexus approach to energy, water, and food.
Guest speaker Carla Tanas, founder of the of the Future Agro Challenge discussed the challenges facing the agri-food sector and the potential of discovering solutions through the innovative powers of entrepreneurs who are able to revolutionize the industry: "Ironically, farmers' instinctual knowledge is a factor that can drive the knowledge economy extinct if it is not passed on. This is why we need to create income for farmers by creating new opportunities using technology." Her talk was followed by the announcement of the two Lebanese winners of this year's local Future Agro Challenge: Compost Baladi and Clean2O, with the first representing Lebanon at the Global Agripreneurs Summit in Greece in June 2019.
Berytech was proud to organize this event with the support of its partners, BLC Bank, Touch, BEL Group, Biel, Careem, Chateau Kefraya, Colonel Beer, Commercial Insurance, Kassatly Chtaura, Lebanese Dutch Business Association, Al Rifai, Robinson Agri, Roof 11, Roots, Unipak and of course the ongoing partnership with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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Testimony of Governor Laurence H. Meyer
Payment of interest on reserves
Before the Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, U.S. House of Representatives
I welcome the opportunity to testify on behalf of the Federal Reserve Board on issues related to interest on demand deposits and interest on balances held at Reserve Banks. The Board continues to strongly support legislative proposals to authorize the payment of interest on demand deposits and interest on balances held by depository institutions at Reserve Banks. It also supports obtaining increased flexibility in setting reserve requirements--a proposal included in legislation that passed the House last year. As we have previously testified, unnecessary restrictions on the payment of interest on demand deposits and balances held at Reserve Banks distort market prices and lead to economically wasteful efforts to circumvent these restrictions. Authorization of interest on balances at Reserve Banks could also be helpful in ensuring that the Federal Reserve will continue to be able to implement monetary policy with its existing procedures, while increased flexibility in setting reserve requirements would allow the Federal Reserve to reduce a regulatory burden on the financial sector to the extent that is consistent with the effective implementation of monetary policy.
As background, let me begin by discussing the role of balances held at Reserve Banks in the implementation of monetary policy. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) formulates monetary policy by setting a target for the overnight federal funds rate--the interest rate on loans between depository institutions of balances held in their accounts at Reserve Banks. While the federal funds rate is a market interest rate, the Federal Reserve can strongly influence its level by adjusting the aggregate supply of deposit balances held at Reserve Banks through open market operations--the purchase or sale of securities that causes increases or decreases in such balances. However, in deciding on the appropriate level of balances to supply to achieve the targeted funds rate, the Open Market Desk must estimate the aggregate demand for such balances.
In estimating that demand, the Desk must take account of the demand for the three types of balances held by depository institutions at the Federal Reserve--required reserve balances, contractual clearing balances, and excess reserve balances. Required reserve balances are the balances that a depository institution must hold to meet reserve requirements. At present, the Federal Reserve requires depository institutions to maintain reserves equal to 10 percent of their transaction deposits above certain minimum levels. Reserve requirements may be satisfied either with vault cash or with required reserve balances, neither of which earn interest.
Depository institutions may also commit themselves in advance to holding additional balances called required or contractual clearing balances. They are called clearing balances because institutions tend to hold them when they need a higher level of balances than their required reserve balances in order to clear checks or wire transfers without running into overdrafts. These clearing balances are similar to the compensating balances offered by depository institutions to their business customers. The clearing balances earn no explicit interest, but earn implicit interest for depository institutions in the form of credits that may offset the cost of using Federal Reserve services, such as check-clearing. Finally, excess reserve balances are funds held by depository institutions in their accounts at Reserve Banks in excess of their required reserve and contractual clearing balances.
Depository institutions must maintain their specified levels of both required reserve and contractual clearing balances, not day-by-day, but on an average basis over a maintenance period that is typically two weeks long. This averaging feature allows these two types of balances to be helpful for the implementation of monetary policy. The required amounts of both types of balances are known prior to the beginning of the maintenance period, so the Open Market Desk knows the balances it needs to supply on average over the period to satisfy these needs. Moreover, the two-week averaging creates incentives for depository institutions to arbitrage the funds rate from one day to the next in a manner that helps keep that rate close to the FOMC's target. For instance, if the funds rate were higher than usual on a particular day, some depository institutions could choose to hold lower balances on that day, and their reduced demand would help to damp the upward pressure on the funds rate. Later in the two-week period, when the funds rate might be lower, those institutions could choose to hold extra balances to make up the shortfall in their average holdings of reserve balances. These actions are desirable in that they help smooth out the funds rate over the two-week maintenance period.
The averaging feature is only effective in stabilizing markets, however, if the sum of required reserve and contractual clearing balances is sufficiently high. If their sum dropped to a very low level, depositories would be at increased risk of overdrafting their accounts at Reserve Banks because of unpredictable payments out of the accounts of depository institutions late in the day. Depositories would need to hold higher levels of excess reserves at Federal Reserve Banks as a precaution against such overdrafts, and demand for these excesses would vary from day to day and be difficult to predict. For example, on days when payment flows are particularly heavy and uncertain, or when the distribution of reserves around the banking system is substantially different from normal, depositories need a higher than usual level of precautionary balances to reduce the risk of overdrafts. The uncertainties about how many balances depositories wish to hold in a given day would make it harder for the Federal Reserve to determine the appropriate daily quantity of balances to supply to the market to keep the federal funds rate near the target level set by the FOMC. Moreover, if the marginal demand for balances were for daily precautionary purposes, there would be less arbitrage of the funds rate by depositories across the days of a maintenance period. Thus, if the demand for balances were determined largely by daily precautionary demands for excess reserves, the funds rate could become more volatile and could diverge markedly at times from its targeted level.
Moderate levels of volatility are not a concern for monetary policy, in part because the Federal Reserve now announces the target federal funds rate, eliminating the possibility that fluctuations in the actual funds rate in the market would give misleading signals about monetary policy. A significant increase in volatility in the federal funds rate, however, would be of concern because it would affect other overnight interest rates, raising funding risks for most large banks, securities dealers, and other money market participants. Suppliers of funds to the overnight markets, including many small banks and thrifts, would face greater uncertainty about the returns they would earn and market participants would incur additional costs in managing their funding to limit their exposure to the heightened risks.
As we have previously testified, the issue of potential volatility in the funds rate has arisen in recent years because of substantial declines in required reserve balances owing to the reserve-avoidance activities of depository institutions. Depositories have always attempted to reduce required reserve balances to a minimum, in large part because those balances earn no interest. For more than two decades, some commercial banks have done so by sweeping the reservable transaction deposits of businesses into instruments that are not subject to reserve requirements. These wholesale business sweeps not only have avoided reserve requirements, but also have allowed businesses to earn interest on instruments that are effectively equivalent to demand deposits. In recent years, developments in information systems have allowed depository institutions to sweep transaction deposits of retail customers into nonreservable accounts. These retail sweep programs use computerized systems to transfer consumer and some small business transaction deposits, which are subject to reserve requirements, into savings accounts, which are not. Largely because of such programs, required reserve balances have dropped from about $28 billion in late 1993 to around $5 billion or $6 billion today, and the spread of such programs probably has not yet fully run its course.
Despite the unusually low level of required reserve balances, no trend increase in the volatility of the funds rate has been observed to date. In part, this stability reflects the increasingly important role of contractual clearing balances, which have risen over the last decade to the point where they now exceed the level of required reserve balances. In addition, improvements in information technology have evidently allowed depository institutions to become much more adept at managing their reserve positions, and as a result, their needs for day-to-day precautionary balances have declined considerably. A number of measures taken by the Federal Reserve also have helped to foster stability in the funds market. These include improvements in the timeliness of account information provided to depository institutions; more frequent open market operations geared increasingly to daily payment needs rather than two-week-average requirements; a shift to lagged reserve requirements, which gives depositories and the Federal Reserve advance information on the demand for reserves; and improved procedures for estimating reserve demand.
To prevent the sum of required reserve and contractual clearing balances from falling even lower and to diminish the incentives for depositories to engage in wasteful reserve-avoidance activities, the Federal Reserve has sought authorization to pay interest on required reserve balances and to pay explicit interest on contractual clearing balances. With interest on required reserve balances, some of the retail sweep programs that have been implemented in recent years might be unwound, and new programs would be less likely to be implemented, thereby helping to boost the level of such balances. Eliminating such wasteful reserve-avoidance activities would also tend to improve the efficiency of the financial sector.
Payment of explicit interest on contractual clearing balances could result in an increase in the level of these balances; some depositories are currently constrained in the amount of such credit-earning balances they can hold because of their limited use of Federal Reserve services. Moreover, payment of explicit interest would help to maintain the level of clearing balances at a time of rising interest rates. At present, some depositories pay for all their Federal Reserve services with credits earned on clearing balances; these institutions would not be able to use their additional credits if interest rates were to rise. If enough institutions were in this position, contractual clearing balances might drop below levels needed to be helpful for the implementation of monetary policy. With explicit interest, the level of balances on which interest could be effectively earned would not be limited to the level of charges incurred for the use of Federal Reserve services. Therefore, these depositories would not be impelled to reduce their balances when interest rates rise.
The substantial decline in balances held at Reserve Banks has not produced any trend increase in the volatility of the funds rate in recent years. Thus, the question arises as to the continued need for reserve requirements at current levels. Some other industrialized countries have eliminated reserve requirements altogether, thereby avoiding completely the waste of resources associated with reserve-avoidance activities. These countries do not have contractual clearing balance programs, but have employed alternative procedures for implementing monetary policy, such as central bank lending at an interest rate that acts like a ceiling on overnight market interest rates. Some central banks also establish a floor for overnight rates by paying interest on the non-reserve deposits they hold. The Federal Reserve could establish such a floor for overnight rates if it were authorized to pay interest on excess reserves; a depository would not likely lend balances to another depository at a lower interest rate than it could earn by keeping the excess funds in its account at the Federal Reserve. Hence, the authorization to pay interest on excess reserve balances would be a potentially useful addition to the monetary toolkit of the Federal Reserve, although such interest payments are not needed for monetary policy purposes at the present time.
At present, the Federal Reserve is constrained in its flexibility to adjust reserve requirements. By law, the ratio of required reserves on transaction deposits above a certain level must be set between 8 and 14 percent. Authorization of increased flexibility in setting reserve requirements would allow the Federal Reserve to consider exploring at some point the possibility of reducing reserve requirements below the minimum levels currently allowed by law, provided we are also granted the authority to pay interest on contractual clearing balances to ensure a stable and predictable demand for the remaining deposit balances at the Federal Reserve, an essential pillar for the effective implementation of monetary policy. If the Federal Reserve were granted these additional authorities, before making modifications in our procedures, we would carefully study the new range of possible strategies for implementing monetary policy in the most efficient possible way.
The payment of interest on required reserve balances would reduce the revenues received by the Treasury from the Federal Reserve. The extent of the revenue loss, however, has fallen in recent years as banks have increasingly implemented reserve-avoidance techniques. Paying interest on contractual clearing balances would primarily involve a switch to explicit interest from the implicit interest currently paid in the form of credits, and therefore would have essentially no net cost to the Treasury. In the past, bills approved by the Committee, such as H.R. 4209 from the last Congress, have provided for a general authorization for the payment of interest on any balances held by depository institutions at Reserve Banks. This would be a desirable outcome. However, if budgetary issues continue to inhibit the passage of legislation to authorize payment of interest on required reserve balances, the Federal Reserve would support a separate authorization of the payment of interest on contractual clearing balances, which would have essentially no budgetary cost. The payment of interest on excess reserves could also be authorized without immediate effect on the budget because the Federal Reserve would use that authority only in circumstances that do not seem likely to arise in the years immediately ahead.
Another legislative proposal that would improve the long-run efficiency of our financial sector is elimination of the prohibition of interest on demand deposits. This prohibition was enacted during the Great Depression, a time when Congress was concerned that large money center banks might have earlier bid deposits away from country banks to make loans to stock market speculators, depriving rural areas of financing. It is unclear whether the rationale for this prohibition was ever valid, and it is certainly no longer applicable today. Funds flow freely around the country, and among banks of all sizes, to find the most profitable lending opportunities, using a wide variety of market mechanisms, including the federal funds market. Moreover, Congress authorized interest payments on household checking accounts with the approval of nationwide NOW accounts in the early 1980s. The absence of interest on demand deposits, which are held predominantly by businesses, is no bar to the movement of funds from depositories with surpluses--whatever their size or location--to the markets where the funding can be profitably employed. In fact, small firms in rural areas are able to bypass their local banks and invest in money market mutual funds with transaction capabilities. Indeed, smaller banks complain that they are unable to compete for the deposits of businesses precisely because of their inability to offer interest on demand deposits.
The prohibition of interest on demand deposits distorts the pricing of transaction deposits and associated bank services. In order to compete for the liquid assets of businesses, banks set up complicated procedures to pay implicit interest on compensating balance accounts. Banks also spend resources--and charge fees--for sweeping the excess demand deposits of businesses into money market investments on a nightly basis. To be sure, the progress of computer technology has reduced the cost of such systems over time. However, the expenses are not trivial, particularly when substantial efforts are needed to upgrade such automation systems or to integrate the diverse systems of merging banks. Such expenses waste the economy's resources, and would be unnecessary if interest were allowed to be paid on both demand deposits and the reserve balances that must be held against them.
The prohibition of interest on demand deposits also distorts the pricing of other bank products. Because banks cannot attract demand deposits through the payment of explicit interest, they often try to attract these deposits, aside from compensating balances, through the provision of services at little or no cost. When services are offered below cost, they tend to be overused to the extent that the benefits of consuming them are less than the costs to society of producing them.
Previous legislative proposals have included a transition period before the direct payment of interest on demand deposits would be effective. During the transition, a reservable 24-transaction money market deposit account (MMDA) would be authorized. Banks would be able to sweep balances from demand deposits into these 24-transaction MMDAs each night, pay interest on them, and then sweep them back into demand deposits the next day. This type of account in effect would permit banks to pay interest on demand deposits, but perhaps more selectively than with direct interest payments. The 24-transaction MMDA, which would be useful only during the transition period before direct interest payments were allowed, could be implemented at lower cost by banks already having sweep programs. Because other banks would face a competitive disadvantage, while some businesses would not benefit from this MMDA, and extra costs would be incurred in operating new sweep programs, a long delay before interest could be paid directly on demand deposits would be very undesirable. A short transition period of a year or so would not be as objectionable, given that many banks may take some time in any case to develop competitive interest-bearing demand deposit products.
Small businesses that currently earn no interest on their checking accounts would see important benefits from interest on demand deposits. For banks, interest on demand deposits would increase costs, at least in the short run. Interest on required reserve balances, or possibly a lower burden associated with reduced reserve requirements, would help to offset the rise in costs, however. And over time, these measures should help the banking sector attract liquid funds in competition with nonbank institutions and direct market investments by businesses. Small banks in particular should be able to bid for business demand deposits on a more level playing field vis-a-vis both nonbank competition and large banks using sweep programs for such deposits. Moreover, large and small banks will be strengthened by the elimination of unnecessary costs associated with sweep programs and other reserve-avoidance procedures.
In summary, the Federal Reserve Board strongly supports legislative proposals to authorize the payment of interest on demand deposits and on balances held by depository institutions at Reserve Banks, as well as increased flexibility in the setting of reserve requirements. We believe these steps would improve the efficiency of our financial sector, make a wider variety of interest-bearing accounts available to more bank customers, and better ensure the efficient conduct of monetary policy in the future.
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Тюргеши () — тюркский народ, живший в Семиречье, входивший в союз пяти племён дулу. Тюргеши состояли в VI в. из объединения племён абаров и мукри, образовавших племенной союз «чёрных» (абаров, кара-тюргеши) и «жёлтых» (мукри, сары-тюргеши) родов. Тюргеши входили в Западно-тюркский каганат. Позднее создали Тюргешский каганат и в конце VII в. возглавили борьбу местных племен против нашествия арабов и китайцев.
В 711 году тюргеши были разбиты полководцем Восточно-тюркского каганата Кюль-тегином. В середине VIII в. джунгарские тюргеши были покорены уйгурами, а семиреченские — карлуками.

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Rachael Durie's Face Photo Series: What's the Appeal?
Rachael Durie is an Australian artist.
What is Rachael Durie's Face Photo Series?
Why is the series appealing?
Why are people drawn to it?
She has been photographing her friends in Melbourne and Sydney since early 2015.
Her work is very intimate and largely hand-written.
We had a chat with Rachael about her work.
How did you start your work?
I've been taking pictures of my friends for a while, but this time I wanted to put the camera in their hands.
I really like seeing their faces in their natural state, rather than staged.
Do you draw your inspiration from their everyday lives?
Not really. They're a way to talk to them, and share something with them.
I started by asking each friend to write a message on a postcard. From there I had an idea. I made a few photo mugs, then made the postcards with the words.
How many postcards have you made so far?
I've made 18 postcards.
"I was inspired by the intimate contact with my subjects," says Durie of her series, which consists of close-up, candid portraits of women wearing less than they usually would. "Some of them were wearing heels, some were barefoot, some had make-up on, some wore baggy clothes, some were fully dressed. I found that they all had very distinct personalities and attitudes that were conveyed by the way they looked. I liked the way that each woman's body was speaking to me, by being so different from one another and also the different ways in which their clothes were revealing things about them. Most of the time when I'm out in public, I notice the woman who looks the least like she's there, because she's not focused on me."
I've seen those women around.
Rachael Durie is the photographer behind the face photo series, The Upper Body. It is a series she created in 2012, after creating a T-shirt with her face on it in 2007.
The series combines Durie's profession as an X-ray technician and a PhD in Neuroscience (her thesis at University College London was titled "When You Lose Your Memory and It Just Looks Like You Have A Bad Mood").
More recently, she has created another series, The Upper Arm, which shows other areas of the human body.
A photographer's inspiration can sometimes be about the skills, like composition or technical ability, that a photographer can use to bring a product to life.
On a recent Monday morning, the Portland-based photographer Rachael Durie was huddled in a large trailer, pulling out a stack of acid-free gel sheets and layers of mascara.
Inside the trailer, the walls were covered in photographs and sketches that Durie has been creating over the last few years. While having her hair and makeup done for a shoot, Durie was discussing her work at a professional level with hair stylist Sydney Schroeder, discussing the film and music of Kanye West with lighting director Dario Picon and making sure that the location was, to her standards, totally free of any excess light.
Durie lives in San Francisco, but she's spent the last two summers working in the Renton area on a series of portraits inspired by the Northern California coastline.
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Sources of resistant germs in the city of Basel
Antibiotic-resistant enterobacteria are responsible for many infections. It is unclear whether they are mainly transmitted between people or whether other sources such as food play an important role. A large-scale analysis of samples from different sources across Basel has now revealed possible transmission routes.
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Increase in resistance beyond healthcare facilities
The most common bacterial pathogens include some types of enterobacteria such as Escherichia coli . Many of them are now resistant to antibiotics. In particular, the so-called ESBL-producing bacteria are problematic: they form enzymes that break down certain antibiotic agents and render them ineffective. Such pathogens initially spread mainly in hospitals. However, for some years now, they have become increasingly widespread outside healthcare institutions. Urinary tract infections are among the most common conditions that are caused by such bacteria.
The increase in ESBL-producing enterobacteria outside hospitals leads to the assumption that other sources of transmission, such as food, may be involved. However, it is difficult to trace the routes by which ESBL-related resistance is spreading. This is because extensive genetic comparisons are needed between samples taken promptly from infected individuals and from different possible sources. A further difficulty is that bacteria exchange individual mobile genetic elements among their type but also with other types of bacteria. As a result, resistance can spread between bacteria.
Possible sources investigated across Basel
Sarah Tschudin Sutter and her team have now collected and analysed numerous samples from various sources in the city of Basel. They systematically took samples from colonised and infected patients at the University Hospital Basel over a period of two years. During the same period, they examined monthly wastewater samples from the sewage system of every Basel neighbourhood. In addition, they examined poultry meat, herbs, sprouts and salads for ESBL-producing bacteria. They bought these samples once a month in a large supermarket and a small shop in each neighbourhood.
Using whole genome sequencing (WGS) to analyse all the samples, they were able to determine the genetic relationships between the ESBL-producing bacteria and find out more about the roles of humans, wastewater and food in spreading resistances.
Many antibiotic-resistant germs in wastewater
It became obvious that ESBL-producing enterobacteria are very widespread in the population: they were found in over 90% of all wastewater samples. By far the most common was Escherichia coli . Wastewater monitoring could therefore make a decisive contribution to the general monitoring of antibiotic resistance in the future, the researchers conclude.
Of the food samples, over 17% of poultry and 2% of vegetable samples contained ESBL-producing bacteria. Here, too, Escherichia coli was the most common type. However, Sarah Tschudin Sutter and her team also discovered other ESBL-producing antibiotic-resistant bacteria in wastewater and food samples, such as Klebsiella pneumoniae . These are an important cause of various infections, including urinary tract infections and pneumonia.
Transmission to humans occurs
The analysis of the genetic sequencing showed a large genetic diversity of bacterial strains, i.e. few relationships overall. This indicates that a variety of different sources must be involved in the spread of antibiotic resistance. The high proportion of wastewater samples with evidence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria indicates that they are widely distributed in the population. This backs the observation made in recent years that a large share of transmissions takes place outside hospitals. The data also showed that resistant bacteria are rarely transferred from food to humans, but that this does occur.
In a follow-up project, the researchers will now evaluate which mobile genetic elements occur in different unrelated bacterial strains. By doing this, they are clarifying the role that the exchange of these elements, known as horizontal gene transfer, plays in the spread of resistance between humans, food and wastewater.
Transmission of ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae and their mobile genetic elements – identification of sources by whole genome sequencing
Dr. Sarah Tschudin Sutter Klinik für Infektiologie und Spitalhygiene Universitätsspital Basel Petersgraben 4 4031 Basel
E-Mail: sarah.tschudin@usb.ch
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By Ansly Damus, a Haitian teacher seeking asylum in the U.S.
Editor's Note: Mr. Damus shared his story about his imprisonment from his jail in Chardon, Ohio. It was translated from Haitian Creole.
In another life, I was a teacher. I stood in front of young people, delivering lessons on ethics and morality, as well as math and physics. Now, I am a prisoner. For the past 16 months, I have been locked inside the Geauga County Safety Center in Chardon, Ohio.
"Safety Center" is a strange name for a jail with no outdoor space, where immigrant detainees are kept in windowless rooms. I have not felt fresh air in my lungs or the sun on my face for more than a year. I have not felt safe for years.
My troubles began on Sept. 15, 2014. I was leading a youth seminar in my hometown of Grand-Riviere-du-Nord, Haiti. I was mid-discussion on the problem of corruption in Haitian politics when I named a local government official — Benjamin Ocenjac — as an example of someone who works with gangs to terrorize the population.
That very day, I was attacked by members of "La Meezorequin," the Shark Bones Army, a well-armed gang that supports Mr. Ocenjac. Men dragged me off my motorcycle and savagely beat me — leaving me with scars which I bear to this day. They set my motorcycle on fire and threatened to kill me.
Fearing for my life, I fled Haiti 10 days later, leaving behind my wife, two young children, parents, and siblings. I was in Brazil for 18 months, living first at a refugee camp, and later in a shared, rented room. I found work in construction but faced discrimination. I was told I was an animal, that people like me were flooding the country to steal jobs. There was no life for me there, but I was afraid to go back to Haiti.
In October 2016, I arrived at the California border to seek asylum. I was interviewed by an officer who found that I had a credible fear of persecution. In April 2017, an immigration judge granted my asylum application, giving me the opportunity to start a new life in the United States. However, the government appealed the decision and the Board of Immigration Appeals called for more proceedings to determine if my time in Brazil had rendered me ineligible for asylum, as the government claimed. I had a second hearing and, in January 2018, the judge once again granted my asylum. She found that I was eligible for asylum in the U.S. and that I would continue to face threats from La Meezorequin, who had since been harassing my wife, should I return to Haiti.
The government appealed again, sending my case into further proceedings.
All the while, I have been imprisoned. Some would call it detention, a euphemism. But I am a human being trapped behind metal bars and walls, with no access to the outdoors, the internet, or email. For the past 11 months, there have been no other French speakers at Geauga whom I can talk to. I spend my days in near total isolation, finding comfort only when I'm reading my Bible.
My teacher's mind struggles to find a lesson in my experience, but I can't make sense of this. The United States has allowed people fleeing persecution to apply for asylum for decades, both as part of its laws and culture. When I feared for my life and arrived at the border, it felt like the U.S. had extended an open hand to me. Yet in accepting it, I have been condemned to indefinite imprisonment, even though I have committed no crime.
I know that I am not the only one in this situation, and this isn't the way that it should be in the United States. Growing up, I always heard talk about America and its promise. In previous years, those who sought asylum were released on humanitarian parole while their cases were decided, but now the government has simply stopped letting people out.
At Geauga, I have seen other asylum-seekers give up and return to countries where they fled danger because the price of seeking safety — imprisonment for months or years on end — was just too high. I am still fighting. The ACLU and partners filed a class action lawsuit on my behalf as well as for more than a thousand other asylum seekers who are currently locked up across the United States. We are suing the Department of Homeland Security for depriving us of due process.
In telling my story and fighting for basic rights, I'm hoping that America will prove to be better than this.
Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly said that Ansly had broken bones following the gang's attack on him in Haiti. He did not.
If the government did not believe his story, they would never have let him in in the first place. And the sad reality of safety of migration is that our country would not have let his family in if they were not also under the same direct threat as he. Our government no longer prioritizes keeping families together, apparently.
He posts as Anonymous. No need to reply to anything that he, or those like him, have to say.
But of course you don't know a single thing about it, so nobody cares what you think.
Who are you to judge. You are no one.
I don't believe him either. And what kind of man leaves his own children and wife behind under violent circumstances? Coward. Get out, go home, file the paperwork and wait like everyone else. You fled like a yellow belly from your own family and responsibilities.... go home and face up!
How do you *know* that what he says is not true? What is your source? I sincerely believe that you are wrong. Don't you know that many men have to leave their family behind to seek asylum?? Get some compassion!
You have no right to judge since you have never been in a country like his where people can b persecuted and are under a dictator. Please don't attempt to criticize anyone who has liv d under those conditions. You have it pretty good compared to these people who have no rights...however, we are getting to that point with this Administration who is trying to take away our rights as well.
I work at an immigration law firm. Stories like this happen ALL the time. His family is not in imminent danger. They can always try to come over here themselves.
You're a troll or a terrible person. Maybe both.
Well aren't you the understanding person?? NOT!
Cool your jets Mr. Damus, patience is a virtue. Learn to speak English while you are waiting. You probably have a lot of time on your hands, use it wisely.